Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labbe said: "I believe that every man who was in the path of the flood . . . has lost practically everything he had .... The people are destitute and what they are going to do in the months to come is a question neither I nor any other man can answer .... God only knows what is going to happen...
...Ford's answer to this was last week's statement, a copy of which he sent to Arthur Brisbane with the instructions: "Here's a statement that I have made. Write around it in any way you like." Editor Brisbane with a newspaper "scoop" in his hands, forebore using it exclusively; shared it with all press associations and Manhattan newspapers...
...young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever persuade him to drive a racing car? Answer: Only a heroine with an entrancing figure, like Cinemactress Barbara Worth, who appears opposite Reginald Denny in an amusing automobile film that runs smoothly enough with standard equipment...
Among the questions answered by persons filling out applications for U. S. citizenship is Question No. 22, asking whether the applicant, if admitted to citizenship, would bear arms for the U. S. In reply to this question Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, organizer of the Henry Ford "peace ship" in 1917, wrote: "Not personally. I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States." In view of Mme. Schwimmer's prominence among pacifists, this answer may well have been considered pert by naturalization authorities. At any rate, her application was last week refused (by a Chicago naturalization...
...partial answer would be that famed Tsarist Commander Peter Nikolaievich Wrangel, Baron Wrangel claims to have a potential army numbering "40,000 White Knights" (TIME, Dec. 27), the members of which are banded together and employed in manual labor as a self-supporting colony in Jugoslavia and pledged to fight for "Holy Russia...